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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Big Watch, from Our Archives
A short guide for a big watch, with pieces from Lange, Audemars Piguet, Urwerk, Panerai, Zenith, and Rolex.
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Watches and Wonders 2015: Our Top 5 Picks
A round up of Watches and Wonders 2015, as well as our top 5 picks featuring brands such as JLC, A Lange and Sohne, Vacheron Constantin, Montblanc, and IWC.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a non Swiss-made Watch, from Our Archives
A short guide for a non Swiss-made watch, with pieces from Lange, Nomos, J.B. Viot, moVas, Bexei, Grand Seiko, and Roger Smith.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Watch with the Fusee and Chain System, from Our Archives
A short guide for a timepiece with the Fusee and Chain system, with pieces from Leroy, Breguet, Cabestan, A. Lange and Sohne, Zenith, and Romain Gauthier.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Chronograph from Our Archives (Part 2)
A short guide for a chronograph watch, with pieces from Chopard, A Lange and Sohne, Cartier, Patek Philippe, De Bethune, and Breguet.
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Deployant Events: Highlights of Horological Events of the last Fortnight
Highlights of significant horological events for the fortnight ending August 9. Private collector dinner featuring Greubel Forsey, Patek Philippe tourbillon, Bexei, and a Lange Boutique cocktail.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Perpetual Calendar Watch from Our Archives
A short guide for a perpetual calendar watch, with pieces from IWC, A Lange and Sohne, H. Moser and Cie, Jaeger LeCoultre, Vianney Halter and Ulysse Nardin.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Annual Calendar Watch from Our Archives
A short guide for an annual calendar watch, with pieces from Urwerk, Parmigiani, IWC, Patek Philippe, A. Lange and Sohne, and Vacheron Constantin.
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Announcement: Dr Frank Müller joins Deployant as Special Correspondent.
Dr Müller is an industry veteran, having cut his teeth under direct tutelage of the late Günter Blümlein, he served a distinguished career as Managing Director of A. Lange & Söhne and subsequently as CEO of Glashütte Original. He also served on the extended board of The Swatch Group. He now runs his ownRead More
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Classic Tourbillon Watch from Our Archives
A short guide for a tourbillon watch, with pieces from JLC, Blancpain, Breguet, Patek Philippe, A. Lange and Sohne, and Vacheron Constantin.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for an Enamel Dial Timepiece from Our Archives
A short guide for a enamel dial timepiece, with pieces from JLC, Blancpain, Laurent Ferrier, Lange, Patek Philippe, Ulysse Nardin, and Vacheron Constantin.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Heirloom Watch from Our Archives
A recommendation guide to purchase a heirloom watch, with pieces from Breguet, Patek Philippe, Rolex, Vacheron Constantin, Lange, and Kari Voutilainen.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Watch Recommendations for a Rich Man, from Our Archives
A short guide for a rich man, with pieces from Greubel Forsey, A.Lange and Sohne, Jaeger LeCoultre, Vianney Halter, De Bethune, and Patek Philippe.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for Gold Watches from Our Archives
A short guide to purchasing gold watches, with pieces from A. Lange and Sohne, Rolex, MB&F;, Panerai, L.U. Chopard, and HYT.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for Dress Watches from Our Archives
A short recommendation guide to purchase dress watches, with pieces from IWC, Chopard, JLC, Zenith, Philippe Dufour, and A. Lange and Sohne.
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Throwback Sundays: Six Recommendations for a Mother’s Day Gift from Our Archives
A short recommendation guide to purchase Mother's Day gift, with pieces from Panerai, Blancpain, Jaeger LeCoultre, Breguet, Corum, and A. Lange and Sohne.
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Chester’s Christmas wishlist, 5 presents for the horologist
Don't know what to get for christmas? Here's 5 ideas for you~ Jaeger lecoultre perpetual calendar, a Lange Datograph, a Grand Seiko and more...
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Accuracy Vs. Precision: Understanding Watch Performance
[Backdrop] A. Lange & Söhne Sax-O-Mat Perpetual Calendar, Adjusted To Positions, Temperature, And Isochronism When it comes to performance in watches, the single most important element to the owner is generally “accuracy,” and by that, is usually meant the ability of a watch to keep time as measured against a certain reliable external standard. Internet […]
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Nomos and the Essence of Watchmaking
Glashütte, Germany; Home town of watchmaking heavy weights like Lange & Sohne, Glashütte Original and Wempe, who is actually making its watches in Glashütte old observatory. However, there is another brand that belongs amongst these names, a heavy weight in its own right; Nomos. Nomos was founded as recent as 1991 by Roland Schwertner. Responsible […]
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Significant Chronographs: The 1815 Chronograph
Significant chronographs: Lange 1815 Chronograph This post is dedicated to my good friend Eddie Sng, whose watch is featured here today. The 1815 Chronograph was introduced as perhaps a purer version of the iconic Lange Datograph. Simpler without the trademark outsized date, but as I said, purer because traditional chronographs typically do not feature aRead More
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Ladies mechanical watches? One magnificent example: The Parmigiani Kalpa Donna
Watchmaking companies do not often make interesting mechanical watches for ladies. Precious few do. Amongst them some do justice for the ladies…I count Lange, JLC, and Parmigiani amongst the few. I show today, a beautiful piece in the current Parmigiani collection…the Kalpa Donna The bezel is still studded with diamonds, for some bling…we gotta haveRead More
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Book Launch in Japan: Tokyo Oct 13
On the occassion for the launch of my book in Tokyo, Lange hosted a Press Conference in the beautiful restaurant right in the middle of town, just a stone’s throw from Nihombashi. The restaurant, San Pau is the branch of the famed 3 Star Michelin restaurant in Spain, and in Japan it too garnered twoRead More
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GO Pano Retro Graph
Glashutte Original’s factory is almost right next door to Lange’s at Altenberger Strasse in Glashutte. The brands do share some common origins, both pointing to Ferdinand Aldophe Lange. Amongst the watches GO produces, some are very nice, but none nicer to my eyes than the Pano Retro Graph…a beautiful movement… The movement is nicely laidRead More
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Pictures at an exhibition
with apologies to Mussorgsky On the occassion of Lange bringing the entire Pour le Merite collection to Singapore and doing an exhibition of the watches at L’Atelier by The Hour Glass at ION Orchard, I also launched my book…as most of you regular readers would know by now. I also took the opportunity to doRead More
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SIHH 2011: The booths at the show
Year after year, the Salon International de Haut Horologie (SIHH) showcases the best of watches in the industry in the huge, invitation only show in Geneva. This is my 10th year attending SIHH. And with each year, the booths become more and more amazing. As the Founder of the Lange Owner’s Group, I naturally useRead More
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SIHH 2011: Vacheron Constantin
Vacheron Constantin is one of the three Grande Dames of watchmaking…the othe two being Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet. Interestingly, it is currently the only one which is within a large group, in this case Groupe Richemont, which count amongst the members of its stable luminaries like A. Lange & Sohne, IWC, Jaeger LeCoultre, Cartier,Read More
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SIHH 2010: ALS ReferenzUhr
The Richard Lange Referenzuhr…reference time. A simple complication to the Richard Lange series of chronometers. Two significant changes to the regular Richard Lange: move from central seconds hand to a large subsidiary seconds hand. And the provision of the ability to reset this seconds hand at will, without having to stop the movement. This featureRead More
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SIHH 2010: ALS Daymatic
The newest member of the Lange 1 family is the automatic Daymatic. Lange used this as the teaser for SIHH10, and indeed in this forum, Edwin has posted the press releases of the watch. Here in full glory: At first glance looks like the regular Lange 1. But its almost a mirror image of theRead More
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SIHH 2010: flashback: ALS Homage Turbograph
I will begin a series, on Wednesdays to republish the reports and photographs I took during the SIHH 2010 in Geneva. These have been previously published on the forum I moderate at TimeZone.com. These encore articles will be published every Wed. First off The Lange Homage Series I just came back from SIHH…and a shortRead More
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Glashütte Original Watches: A Comprehensive Guide
Glashütte Original is a luxury watchmaker founded in 1994, in the wake of the Cold War and at the dawn of German reunification. However, it traces its roots back much further, to the mid-19th Century during the inception of German watchmaking in the eastern German state of Saxony. Here is the story of how Glashütte Original, and the horological pioneers who laid its foundation, persevered through war, social and political upheaval, and economic turmoil to become one of today's most innovative and admired watch brands, along with an introduction to each of its five 21st-Century product families. Saxon Watchmaking’s Founding Fathers The little town of Glashütte, in the Ore Mountains of the German state of Saxony, had fallen on hard times when a watchmaker from nearby Dresden named Ferdinand Adolph Lange set up a watchmaking shop there in 1845. The silver-mining industry that had sustained the region’s inhabitants, and that had given the town its name (“Glass Hut” or “Shiny Hut”), was on the decline after years of war and industrial competition from the New World. The inhabitants of the town were facing poverty and eager for new opportunities to make a living, and Lange, along with others who shared his passion for horology and entrepreneurship, were the visionaries to provide them. In cooperation with the Royal Saxon government, who had funded the venture, Adolph Lange established A. Lange & Cie. (later A. Lange & Söhne), a manufacturing hub for watchmakin...